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Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
Journalist
Philosopher
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Bloomington
Illinois
Elbert Hubbard
Ali Baba
Fra Elbertus
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The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
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It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
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The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.
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A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.
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All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.
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The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.
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Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.
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The man who has no problems is out of the game.
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Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.
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Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
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Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.
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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
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Real life is in love, laughter, and work.
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Laughter is higher than all pain.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.
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It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.
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